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The University of Vermont campus deadline for Fulbright Grants has come and gone. The next stage of the process will be a campus review of the applications, which includes an interview with the University of Vermont Fellowships Committee. It’s important to prepare in advance for the on-campus interview; get plenty of rest the night before […]

This entry was posted on Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 3:37 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

Fulbright Interviews – Fall 2009 Room 034 E – U-Heights North (Honors College Conference Room) It is imperative that you be on time for your interview. We cannot reschedule interviews to meet your course schedule unless you have something truly pressing (an exam—that’s about it). If you need our office to send a note to […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 11:34 am and is filed under Uncategorized.

The Fulbright competition is a particularly complex one for our office: the Fulbright office requires both online and hard copy applications and it necessitates that our office at UVM act as the clearinghouse for what amounts to hundreds of documents from the many (over twenty this year) applicants we have for Fulbright grants. For this […]

This entry was posted on Monday, September 14th, 2009 at 5:40 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

As more students stop by the Fellowships Office asking for feedback on their third, fourth, or fifth Fulbright application draft, more students are getting feedback that says something like, “Clean it up and you’re good to go.” There’s good news and bad news when you get that comment: The good news is you’re only one […]

This entry was posted on Monday, September 14th, 2009 at 11:49 am and is filed under Uncategorized.

Information Sheet for Internal Submission of Fulbright Applications This information sheet covers the procedures around the first application deadline of September 18, 2009. Early in October, we will circulate another set of instructions involving the final submission of your Fulbright application for the final October 19 deadline. Please follow these instructions to the letter. We […]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 9:52 am and is filed under Uncategorized.

Here are some wonderfully useful tips from a former Fulbright recipient for those of you putting together a Fulbright application this fall: TIPS TO OFFER FULBRIGHT CANDIDATES by Radha Blackman, 2003-2004, Bulgaria After carefully researching and planning a relevant, feasible and rewarding Fulbright project, the next important step is producing persuasive and high quality documents […]

Doug Cutchins of Grinnell College, a colleague of mine, put together a wonderfully helpful document on writing personal statements. He’s generously made it available for the rest of us fellowships advisors to share with our students. So here it is, one of the most helpful discussions I’ve seen on the personal statements all fellowship candidates […]

This entry was posted on Monday, September 7th, 2009 at 9:35 am and is filed under Uncategorized.